Around the World with Willy Fog | |
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Spanish | La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog |
Genre | Adventure |
Based on | Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne |
Developed by | Claudio Biern Boyd |
Theme music composer | Guido and Maurizio De Angelis |
Opening theme | "La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog" by Mocedades |
Ending theme | "Sílbame" by Mocedades |
Country of origin | Spain |
Original language | Spanish |
No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
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Running time | 26 mins |
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Original release | |
Network | TVE1 |
Release | 8 January 15 July 1984 | –
Related | |
Willy Fog 2 (1994–95) | |
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Around the World with Willy Fog (Spanish: La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog) is a Spanish animated television adaptation of the 1873 novel Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne. It was produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional and Televisión Española, with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation, and was first broadcast on TVE1 weekly in 1984.[1][2]
Jules Verne's original characters are depicted as animals in the series.[3] The core trio are all felines being pursued by three canine foes. Willy Fog (Phileas Fogg in the original book) is depicted as a lion, while Rigodon (Passepartout) is a cat, and Romy (Aouda) is a panther.[4]
An English dub of the series was directed by Tom Wyner, which featured the voices of Cam Clarke (Rigodon), Gregory Snegoff (Inspector Dix), Steve Kramer (Constable Bully), Rebecca Forstadt (Romy), and Mike Reynolds (additional voices). It was broadcast on the BBC in the United Kingdom in 1984 and on RTÉ in Ireland.[5] The series was also dubbed into Japanese and aired on Japan's TV Asahi in 1987, where it was titled Anime Around the World in 80 Days (アニメ80日間世界一周, Anime Hachijūnichikan Sekai Isshū).
A sequel series, Willy Fog 2 (1993), adapts Verne's novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. A theatrical musical show was produced in Spain in 2008 in celebration of its 25th anniversary.[6]